alsa question

[Toby Fisher]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> You cannot use cat to send audio files to devices. Instead use "play
> filename.au". You could use aplay too, but I still can't get aplay or
> arecord to work.

Hmmm, I do believe that it is suggested in the sound howto that you can
use cat to throw a .wav file at /dev/audio to test the sound card, and it
has worked for me, after all, you're just feeding it a stream of data.
Now an mp3 on the other hand...Just don't do it. *grin*

Cheers.

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